張默妍

Fun Things About Football World Cup：

●In 1966， the World Cup was in England. The Cup was lost and someone was going to sell it. A dog found it under a tree！

●The youngest player was Norman Whiteside from Northern Ireland. He was only 17 years and 41 days old when he played in the 1982 World Cup.

Every four years， in a different country around the world， there is a big sports game. It is like the Olympics1 but only for one sport—the most popular sport in the world！What do you know about the history of the FIFA World Cup？

The first World Cup was in 1930， in Uruguay2. In the final3 game Uruguay beat Argentina4 and won5 the first World Cup. Thirteen countries played in the first World Cup. Now there are 32 countries in the game.

The first time people saw the World Cup on TV was in 1954 when Switzerland6 held the game. Now about 3 billion7 people in countries all over the world watch the World Cup on TV！

Until 2002 the World Cup was always in a European8 or an American country. South Korea and Japan held the first Asian9 World Cup. The first African10 World Cup was in 2010， in South Africa.

Brazil is one of the best World Cup teams. They are the only team that has played in every game. So far they have won it five times. Germany and Italy have both won four times. Argentina and Uruguay have won it two times. England， France and Spain have won it once.

世界杯趣味小知識：

●1966年的世界杯在英格蘭舉行。當時世界杯的獎杯丟失了，還差點被人賣出去，結(jié)果獎杯被一只小狗在一棵樹下找到了！

●1982年世界杯，最年輕的運動員是來自北愛爾蘭的諾曼·懷特賽德，參加比賽時他年僅十七歲又41天。

每隔四年，都會有一場盛大的體育賽事在世界各地中不同的一個國家舉行。世界杯就像奧運會一樣，但是只籌辦一種體育項目——世界上最受歡迎的運動！你對國際足聯(lián)世界杯的歷史了解有多少呢？

第一屆世界杯于1930年在烏拉圭舉行。在決賽中，烏拉圭擊敗了阿根廷摘下了第一屆世界杯的桂冠。在第一屆的世界杯中，參賽國家共有13個，如今的參賽國家多達32個。

人們第一次通過電視機觀看世界杯是在1954年由瑞士主辦的世界杯比賽，現(xiàn)如今全世界通過電視收看世界杯大約有30億人次！

之前的世界杯比賽一直都在歐洲國家或美國城市舉辦，直到2002年才由韓國和日本聯(lián)手舉辦了亞洲國家的第一屆世界杯。第一屆由非洲國家舉辦的世界杯則是2010年的南非世界杯。

巴西是世界杯史上最成功隊伍的之一。他們是唯一一支參加過每一屆比賽的球隊，距今為止巴西已經(jīng)折桂五次了。德國和意大利都是四次奪冠的隊伍，阿根廷和烏拉圭兩次奪冠，英國、法國和西班牙則各贏了一次。